Purpose: This paper aims to explore what factors influence the possibility of internal and external risk propagation in R&D networks and investigate how government intervention moderates the associations between the influencing factors and risk propagation. Design/methodology/approach: The...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of two dimensions of relational risks, namely, opportunism behavior and interest conflict, on knowledge flow and to explore the moderating effect of network power among these untested relationships and to examine the positive...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore how the number of structural holes influences the possibility of risk propagation in R&D networks; and second, to investigate how the specific context of tie strength and common cognition moderate the association between...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore that relational capability plays a mediator role in the relationship between focal enterprises' control on knowledge transfer risks in R&D network. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reviews the related literature from which it proposes a...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to enhance the comprehensive understanding of the roles of resource investments, explicit contracts and three components ofguanxi(i.e.renqing,ganqingandmianzi) in asymmetric research and development (R&D) partnerships. Treating dependence asymmetry as a...